September 29, 2005

Government, Not Charity, Should Pay for Disaster Relief

By Warren Goldstein

Horrified and moved by the suffering Hurricane Katrina has caused, generous Americans have donated more than $1-billion to relief groups.

But as churches and synagogues and mosques and community groups and universities and schools run fund-raising carwash after concert after dinner after special collection, I worry that Americans are making a colossal mistake, one likely to produce more natural disasters, more scenes of devastated populations wandering aimlessly through their former

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